THEMATIC AND STRUCTURAL PARALLELS OF UKRAINIAN AND CATALYTIC PROSE

Abstract

The typical and recurring structural components of the prose of Merce Rodoroda, the classic of the Catalan literature of the XX century, are considered. Their role in creating the national coloring of the novel is determined. A comparative analysis of the poetic peculiarities of Merce Rodoreda’s prose with the structure of some works of Ukrainian prose is carried out. The comparative aspect of the new Ukrainian and Catalan prose, which has in-depth general features, is by now unexplored. The problem of the ratio of universal and original in art is developed over considerable time in a different genre and methodological planes. And if, for example, the Irish component in the British literature has been studied quite thoroughly, then the national peculiarities of Ukrainian and Catalan literatures have been studied less than the mentioned one. At the same time, a comparative analysis of the differences between literature in Ukrainian and Russian and in Catalan and Castilian can be indicative. Historically, the literature was developed in very similar conditions: both sought to merge with the European context, and both experienced a strong gravitation (and often political opposition) of the Russian and Castilian states. The discovery of separate laws of interaction between Catalan and Castilian literatures will allow a better understanding of the laws of the national literature development. The article shows peculiar structural components of the prose, which with a great deal of probability will form the national originality of any European novel.